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Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story

An engaging look at the fascinating subculture of the song-poem industry, where a dream and a song come together as ordinary people mail in their poems to be set to music for a fee.

Series

Independent Lens, True Stories

Premiere Date

February 11, 2003

Length

60 minutes

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Jamie Meltzer

Producer

Jamie Meltzer is a documentary filmmaker and professor in the MFA Program in Documentary Film at Stanford University. His award-winning documentaries have screened at Berlinale, Hot Docs, SXSW, and Tribeca, broadcast on PBS and as New York Times Op-Docs, and supported by the Sundance Institute, MacArthur Foundation, and ITVS.

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